Improvement in foot-measure for shoemakers



.CHARLES Guess, ouLoUIsvrLLE, KENTUCKY@ Letters PatentNo. 39,919, dated May l1, 18,69.

rMPnovEMENT nv room-MEASURE PoR SHOEMAKERS.

Th Schedule refend `to in these Letters Patent and making part of the samef To all 'whom 'it may concern: l .l

Be it known that AI, CHARLES Onoss, of. Louisville, in the county of` J ei'erson, and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and improved `Fo'ot-lllIeasul-e for `Shoemakers and I do hereby declare that the follow- A ing is a full, clear, and exactdesci'iptiou thereof, which `will enable those skilledin the art td make and use the same, reference being had to the accompany-ing y drawings,` forming part of ,this specification. I

i The object of this invention is to provide a more convenient and useful measure for .shoemakers use than any now inuse. i' l v `,It consists of the arrangement, upon a suitable bedl piece, of measures adapted to take the length of the feet, breadth at the heels, at the widest part of the ioot, and the'thickness of the great toe, both for right and left feet, adjustable, to all sizes,- thefmeasures which come -under the feet being inlaid in the said bed, so that the `feet set firmly on the said bed-piece when being measured. v 4

Figure l represents a plan view-of my improved apparatus and Figure 2 represents a section of the same, taken on the line x w of n'g. 1. i, i j

Similar letters of reference indicatev corresponding parts. y 4 Arepresents the bed-piece, which is provided with the side walls B and B, the4 interior faces of which l are curved, asrshown at c, telit, as near as may be, the-inner sides of the feet near the heels', y O and 4C represent the measures for `taking the lengthof the feet, which are of construction similar to those. in ordinary use, but which are," according to my improvement, inlaid in-the bed A.,

D and `lil-represent the measuesgfbrltaking the breadth of' the feet, and are provided with the slides They are so arranged as to-take the measure for both feet, the slides moving from one side to the other. The scale E is arranged iu a sliding part F of the bed, tobe adjusted as required for feet `of dilerent lengths, and both are `inlaid iu the bed. The measures C and C are provided, with vertica scalesfand slides G/G, for taking the vertical measurement of the great toes. -In taking the measurements, the right foot is placed on the left side, and-the left foot on the right side of the apparatus.

` By this arrangement of measures,' the operation of measuring is mademore easy andy accurate, the feet being in a more natural position, and, as they rest on the 'bed-piece, andpuot on the measures, the slides may be movedwth greater facility. l VI claimas new, and desire to secure by Letter Patent- Y l. The combination, with the bed-piece A, provided with the side walls B and B', of the measures (l and y C', when inlaid in the same, substantially as and for v the purpose described.

2. The combination, withthe bed A, having the sidewalls B and B', of the inlaid measures D andE,

substantially asl and' for the purpose described.

3. The slide E, arranged in the adjustable part F of the bed, substantially as and for the purpose described; 4. The combination, withthe inlaid measures C and G', of the toe-gauges Gr, substantially as and for the Y purpose described. e

Witnesses:

' B. A. OULLEN,

oHAaLEs -cnoss J As. T. CURTIS. 

